KNM-WT 17000 (also known as "The Black Skull") is a fossilized adult skull of the species Paranthropus aethiopicus. It was discovered in West Turkana,...

earlier A. afarensis. P. aethiopicus is known primarily by the skull KNM WT 17000 from West Lake Turkana, Kenya, as well as some jawbones from Koobi Fora;...

reclassified it as A. africanus. In 1986, after the discovery of the skull KNM WT 17000 by English anthropologist Alan Walker and Richard Leakey classified it...

belongs to the "Black Skull", Paranthropus aethiopicus field number KNM WT 17000, the earliest known robust hominid ancestor and the oldest robust australopithecine...

"Kenyanthropus platyops: KNM WT 40000". www.efossils.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) "KNM-WT 40000". 23 January 2010....

both the appearance of the sagittal crest and post-orbital constriction. KNM-ER 406, the skull of a Paranthropus, brain volume estimated to 410 cm3 with...

Richard Leakey found that the 2.5-million-year-old East African skull KNM WT 17000—which they assigned to a new species A. aethiopicus|A. aethiopicus—was...

discovery of Turkana Boy, Leakey and his team made the discovery of a skull (KNM WT 17000, known as "Black Skull") of a new species, Australopithecus aethiopicus...

Archived from the original on 17 July 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2023. "KNM-WT 17000". The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program. 1 January 1985...

Africa and P. aethiopicus is only confidently identified from the skull KNM WT 17000 and a few jaws and isolated teeth, it is debated if P. aethiopicus should...